CD, short format of Compact Disc, is a digital optical disc data storage format. An Audio CD is a music CD like that you buy in a music store for play on CD player. Music is stored on Audio CDs can be MP3, or uncompressed digital data with no data lost, exactly as in WAV digitally encoded files.

What is .CDA file?

A file with the extension .cda is shortcut to a track on an audio CD on a standard “Red Book” CD-DA format audio CD. These files are shown in the directory for the CD being viewed in the format Track##.cda, where ## is the number of each individual track. The .cda files do not contain the actual PCM sound wave data, but instead tell where on the disc each track starts and stops. If the file is “copied” from the CD to the computer, it becomes useless because it is only a shortcut to part of the disc. However, some audio converter, audio editing and CD creation programs will, from the user’s perspective, load .cda files as though they are actual audio data files, and allow the user to listen to them and even convert the copied .CDA files to MP3, WAV, WMA, FLAC, etc.

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